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The last of the old school... and continuing. If they have a fault, perhaps, it's trying too hard to be current and not enough of the guitary/compositional mystery magic seen on the second album. Yet still strong: one of the few death metal bands left that delivers an impressive presence alongside music for the brain.

"What’s kept Immolation going all these years?We love what we do, plain and simple. It hasn’t been the easiest road to travel down and for almost 18 years... sometimes I think we certainly must be nuts, but then there is nothing else I would rather be doing. That includes every aspect of what we do, from writing, to recording, to rehearsing, to touring and traveling and meeting people all over the world. I stop and think about how fortunate we are to still be doing this and to still really enjoy it and that’s all that matters in the end."

Major news agencies usually have "music" sites where you can select through the artists they think you should hear. Naturally, almost none of these include Burzum, and they'd be horrified to include it.

Theory: They are collecting data to see what people are willing to buy, as well as trying to shove it down our throats.

1. Collect list of major music sites with search blanks2. Create script to search repetitively for variations on 'Burzum' and 'Ildjarn;3. Have fifty or more dedicated Hessians apply themselves to this task.

Consequences: we may never know, but it's possible they will at least experience great consternation and make hilarious public statements about evil black metal. At best case scenario, they'll start selling Burzum via mainstream record sites, which is no loss as black metal is already dead, so we might as well market what could positively influence the hordes.

Relapse Records has announced the forthcoming reissue of the entire recorded works of seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST, starting with a limited edition, foil-stamped box set containing LP versions of each of the ATHEIST full-lengths, as well as the R.A.V.A.G.E. (pre-ATHEIST) "On They Slay" 7" EP exclusive to this edition. The LP box will be strictly limited to 1,000 copies and surface in July. The CD re-issues will follow in the late summer/early fall, starting with "Elements" on August 30 (U.S.) and September 5 (Europe). http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article &newsitemID=38313

Here is an article about the artist I think the way it describes him his beliefs styles etc basically sum up black metal e.g. his love of the pagan in nature, the darkness in his paintings, the passion involved, the mysteriousness, etc..

Romantic artist named Caspar David Friedrich painted this, I think it very much fits the style of black meta although possibly second two are not really dark enough for black metall, also read this quotation about the artist:

Though snow was first popular in European landscapes with those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from the Lowlands, Friedrich saw it in a new light, close to silent death or miraculous rebirth - never as a rococo confectioner's seasonal sugaring.

We've set up a list of businesses that treat Hessians well or cater to Hessians (metalheads; headbangers; threshers; heshers; thrashers). We would like to keep adding to this list to reward those businesses that treat metalheads well. Please send name of business, address, and phone/email/web if applicable to prozak (at) anus.com.

East of the LIRR's Sunnyside yard, underneath the No. 7 elevated line, on a forlorn stretch of Queens Boulevard, smack between the Getty gas station and the Love Shack porn shop, there's this new basement venue called the Metal Kingdom. Co-proprietor Edwin also plays bass in Gnosis—the openers for the Kingdom's inaugural evening. The outfit—one of four featured bands whose members hail from Latin America—plays neo-Incan/ Mayan/Aztec "tribal" metal: pan flutes, conch shells, and sludge guitars, with Pan-American, indigenous themes.

Globalized metal's not new. For decades, extreme metal disciples have honed their craft worldwide, a loose network with all the attendant subgenres (black metal, death metal, grindcore, and on and on). But the Metal Kingdom's majority-Latino metal crowd on American soil is an indication of just how much the demographics have shifted stateside. And metal is still one of the musics of working-class youth. Many Mexican and South and Central American kids particularly relate to its explicitly anti-Christian, anti-authoritarian themes. It's quite a sight, seeing outer-borough white ethnics throwing up the devil horn salute, headbanging alongside theircompańeros from all points south.

Gnosis were the most melodic, the most musical of the bands—in this scene that can be taken as a compliment or an insult. Less concerned with melody was Mexico's Discordia, with skinned-cow-head stage props and an impish, gurgling, hissing fiend of a singer.

The language barrier between the various acts and the crowd didn't matter—this is meta(l)-language; it's all spoken in tongues anyway. Take Bloodthrone, purveyors of—"waiter, there's a fly in my Genesis P-Orridge!"—American black war destruction blasphemy metal. These Jersey grind-toughs got props from the Latin kids, and vice versa. One big, blurred, meth-ill, metal-kill, spiked-armband, bullet-belted, moanin' wail. The language barrier between the various acts and the crowd didn't matter—this is meta(l)-language; it's all spoken in tongues anyway. Take Bloodthrone, purveyors of—"waiter, there's a fly in my Genesis P-Orridge!"—American black war destruction blasphemy metal. These Jersey grind-toughs got props from the Latin kids, and vice versa. One big, blurred, meth-ill, metal-kill, spiked-armband, bullet-belted, moanin' wail. It was a -heartening- confluence, considering how elements of the "black metal" scene flirt with some real odious ideologies, like "Odinism."

There we were, a writhing, polyglot mass, sweating to the strobe lights in that hellfire-hot basement. But this ain't no disco inferno. Them's sacrificial fires burning. And if you peer closely enough through the smoke, you just might be able to make out the smoldering embers of the past.

Good news for all those who have helped me and encouraged in these hard last weeks and a real disappointment for all these fucking snitches who tried to bring me down. The public prosecutor has officially sunk investigation against me. I am not going to explain in the Internet (most of "evidence" against me collected and passed on by someone for police came from this source) how much did it cost me to convice "authorities" that most of charges shoud be rejected, enough to say paradoxally I am at liberty thanks to this corrupted jewish system. Although I am totally broken now and I am not able to continue some of my activities such as distribution for example anymore, I am FREE, PISSED OFF AND MORALLY STRONGER THAN EVER so beware - it' s payback time bitches...

These were only the words of anger and fury dedicated to persons who surely visit this forum sometimes, I decided to write today after receiving confrimation that my problems are over and the case is closed.

In a couple of days when I calm down I will post a longer and not so emotional explanation of my disappearance. Especially, I would like to apologize all people who awaited stuff from EASTERN HATE and got no response from our side. I promise to compensate your loss as soon as possible, but I just want to ask you for showing some patience yet. I was forced to contract a debt exeeding my financial possibilities many times and became bankrupt to avoid bringing an action in court which would also mean losing my job and prohibition for continuation of work in my profession.

FINALLY, there are two persons without whom I wouldn' t be able to write these words today at my home: Alex Kurtagic and Darkpilgrim. You guys gave me more than support, actually you delivered me from really serious troubles...It will never be forgotten.

Sorry it's been so long since my last update. I switched to a new hospitalthat didn't have a computer. Then on my 37th birthday (May 15) it was thelast day for me at that hospital, and I got involved wtih a state-runprogram. I'm basically living in a foster home for cripples now. I'm not ascrippled as I was earlier, I use a walker to get around nowadays, but I'mnot in a wheelchair anymore. For anyone who has ordered shirts or CDs fromme please be patient, I'll try to get the orders out to you in the nextcouple of months. Sorry to take so long but I'm not living where the shirtsand CDs are stored. Also I don't have a computer where I'm living noweither, so I can't really answer emails. I'm a few months behind on checkingemails as it is.

Anal Cunt managed to do a show on June 1. We got added onto the Eye Hate Godshow in Boston. I had to sit in a chair during the show because I can'twalk, but we sounded great. It was also the first show with John Gillis backon drums. We played for about 15 - 20 minutes. I'd like to thank Eye HateGod for getting us on the show. So when I eventually get to a place where Iget to use a computer regularly, I'll get back to all the emails I have.

Music is sound that resembles life. It reveals not only the experience of life, but the emotions and ideas that the musician has in response to life. Heavy metal music sounds like a certain way of life, because a similar thought process is required to become a heavy metal musician. For this reason, heavy metal is more than a style; it's a culture.

The metal genre does not fit into the easy categories used for modern music. While it sounds modern, it champions the values of older times, such as honor, bloodlust, aggression, emotion and passion. It denies the plastic modern existence and insists on meaning being found in experience, not ownership. For this reason, heavy metal is a cross between ancient ideas and modern methods. Our utilitarian contemporary society has no words for what this is.

Since heavy metal isn't on the radar for mainstream civilization, they write it off and claim that people listen to metal for the sole purpose of irritating their parents. They deny its musical value, explain away its artistic value, and brush it aside by assuming it is not serious and worthy of study. For this reason, Hessians, or those who are part of the heavy metal culture, are one of the most marginalized groups in modern society today.

We have all seen varying ethnic and religious groups fight for their right to be recognized as unique and to have special rights and privileges. If at the "modern" university we have a Black Studies Department, and an Asian Studies Department, why not a Hessian Studies Department? Hessian culture has in the years since 1969 been a fundamental force in shaping our society, and remains one of its most persistent critics, all while developing its own way of existing.

Not all Hessians are alike. Some care about nothing and will not understand this web page at all. The few who believe in life and in the heavy metal lifestyle will find that Hessian culture is something they have sought for years, perhaps without knowing it at all. For Hessians, hessian.org is a reference material of their own society within an outer society. For those of you who are outsiders to Hessiandom, this is a chance to broaden your "diversity" and learn about an entirely singular culture that thrives among the things you consider normal, but will never bow down and join them.

Now that your genre has sold itself out, we don't even remotely consider you a threat. In fact, we once worried you'd upset what people believed, but now that you've humbled yourselves by spewing out crap, we just don't care. You're just another special group of tools in a world overflowing with them. Please carry on and pretend you didn't read this message. It's important for us to have amusing tools of various stripes so we have something to mock when we're at overpriced bars.

The NS scene turned out to be a complete farce with bands trying to show off how "politically incorrect" they were with ranting about genocide, and then turning around and griping about the degeneracy of drugs and animal torture and child abuse to the point where they sounded like obese middle-aged suburban women trying to keep their local playgrounds safe.